I’d love a drink, thank you!
The week started off with a sibling calling me in crisis. Luckily, we knew people nearby who could go over and help. Long distance emergencies present another layer of problems to solve! That situation seems under control, for the moment.
Owners of the business I work for said they are “bleeding money”. Oh dear. Better update that resume.
First, that drink, then, vacation. I’ll deal with it when I get back!
I just went on a little mountain hike, bought some white wine and local cheese on my way back. So…fonts it is.
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/visual-history-of-typefaces/index.html
A long way from Gutenberg:
Sadly, many experience the CC typeface more like blackletter than Baskerville 
I can offer some excellent dry cider that we brought up from Colorado or a growler of local beer called “13th Doctor”, but it’s only 3 here in the North Cascades so I’ll wait a bit. Beer in the afternoon makes me ?,OTOH - I’m on vacation!
Having a White Claw in the grapefruit flavor! Not a beer drinker, so this is a nice totable potable for me to take to the beach! Not that I’m going outside - it’s been raining all week.
Bottle of Sauvignon Blanc chilling in the fridge here. Celebratory birthday for the H/last night home for D before going back to school. H should be coming through the door in 15. It’s been a week so looking forward to chilling and relaxing!
I love those! Grapefruit is my favorite. Cheers!
I was on the caring for parents thread since Christmas with all sorts of turmoil but while I’m still caring and traveling my dad just celebrated 97 years! And he is now doing great and on the upswing! Yea! Drinks all around!!!
@gouf78 I will definitely drink to that!
Hoping that a bit of imbibing will knock me out tonight so I can sleep off my jet lag.
13th Doctor sounds interesting. I know some people looking for second opinions…
To me there’s only one 13th Doctor and that’s Doctor Who. Although Doctor 10 is still my favorite.
Sewer line was blocked but is not anymore -whew! Squeezed the oranges for the juice for the rum swizzles, to be drunk out by the pool tomorrow.
Sitting in a tiny cabin in northwestern Connecticut, drinking rum and ginger root beer. Listening to DH play classical guitar. Damn, he’s good.
My son’s observation: “Imagine being so New England you own a cabin but still rent cabins elsewhere?”
@oldmom4896 where are you coming back from?
We spent 3 weeks in Europe, mostly Switzerland but a little Germany and France, got back last Saturday and my younger 2 kids started school 2 days ago. Had lots of good wine and beer (Weizen!) there, have to cut back now for weight reasons but I opened a Cab Sav tonight. Cheers, y’all.
We went to Reims, France, in the Champagne region and toured the Taittinger caves. Super interesting… they are on the grounds of a former abbey and church that burned down during the French revolution. They use the caves that were dug by the abbey and were expanded into an area that was dug by the Romans. It was fun… you tour the caves and then get to taste the champagne :-).
Also my middle child (17) was of legal age to drink wine and beer on this trip. She tried a few things, was not a fan of most beers and wines but did like cider, kir royale, and lambic beer.
@washugrad I was in Israel where I spent 3 weeks with dear friends. I had visited them there for short visits, most recently for both their kids’ weddings but this was a lovely, leisurely trip. The joke is that they have a small vineyard and just got government permission to open a winery on their moshav but neither in my (older) generation is a drinker. I guess their son is the wine taster. So no sinners alley there for me but a fabulous trip.
Oh and more to celebrate: I went through customs and immigration at JFK airport at around 10 last night, before today’s big computer crash. I’ll have another glass of that New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc that was waiting for me when I got home.
We’ve been on a binge of drinking Vermont wines which are much better than you would think. If anyone wants some Marquette or “Big Barn Red” (unknown mixture) we’ve got it! Yay global warming! Speaking of fonts - has any one seen the movie Helvetica? I really enjoyed it, though I had to watch it when dh was away as he does not understand why fonts are interesting and does not understand why SIL and I obsess about where orange stops and red begins.
Northern New England can plant wine grapes on those mountain sides which will no longer be ski-able soon due to climate change. Turn those ski resorts in vineyards and wineries.
Don’t have enough in my 401(k) to buy Greenland… So that’s the plan here… we are terracing our hill so we could plant some ?! Then we can stock up our cellar with homemade booze and drink ourselves to sleep in the cellar when some rogue country sends a missile towards the deserts of Seattle.
Just kidding. Enjoying a pitcher of nice wine (yay, Syrah on tap!) on a patio by our “fake ocean.” ?
Burlington VT snow totals.
Dec Jan Feb March April months
1893-1894 2.0 19.0 27.1 13.0 7.0 0.1
1894-1895 0.7 2.7 16.0 16.0 9…0
1895-1896 0.5 3.0 4.0 7.5 19.5
2016-2017. 4.3 16.7 7.6 30.6 36.8
2017-2018 23.5 15.2 12. 30.1 4.2
2018-2019 19.5 8.6 41.8 17.3 15.2
Despite the obvious issues, there’s not a snow issue in Vermont. There is more now than 125 years ago despite what we would think.
Interesting to look at the trends etc.
Two more vaguely amusing things from my Europe trip - we also went wine tasting in Switzerland (Lavaux region, near Lausanne). They have a grape varietal there called Plant Robert which was actually quite nice but my local friend reminded me that of course there’s the American rock star Robert Plant. And then I had a moment where I kept seeing the AOC label (Appelation d’originelle controllee) if I spelled that correctly in French… meaning that you can call something ‘champagne’ only if it comes from the Champagne region or ‘Gruyere’ cheese is only from that region, etc. Anyway, I finally realized that it was looking so familiar because of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez :-). I wonder if she’s ever realized that she shares her initials with that French stamp of approval.
We also went to Alsace, another wine area… would really recommend that highly if you ever go just for small villages and wine tourism. Very cute small towns there.
I remember when weekend ski lift tickets in the NE were less than $10, and being appalled when they hit double digits. Now, with tickets approaching or exceeding $100 (never mind what they cost in the mid and far west), access to locally produced wine and/or other alcoholic beverages may be a welcome option!! May help temper the pain in the wallet.